FACTUAL
Playing Rosa's Tune: Music of the Civil Rights Struggle
Tuesday 7 February 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)
In October 2005 Mrs Rosa Parks the mother of the civil rights movement died at the age of 92. Fifty years earlier, then an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and her subsequent arrest ignited the civil rights movement in America.
Stephen Evans travels to Montgomery to talk to those involved in the movement and its music.
